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RESTRICTED
YALTA
Russia. By reasserting rights in Dairen and Port Arthur.
the area would inevitably direct that trade toward Siberia.
they have acquired warm water bases for commercial and
Soviet acquisition of southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles
naval operations in Far Eastern waters. Joint control
has restored to Russian hands the extensive fisheries of
over the Chinese Eastern and Southern Manchurian rail-
the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the Sakhalin coal and oil
roads (now the Chinese Changchun railroad system) pro-
resources formerly exploited by the Japanese. Strategi-
vides them with routes connecting these ports with Soviet
cally, possession of Sakhalin and the Kuriles has made
territory and also a short route across Manchuria to
the Sea of Okhotsk a Soviet lake, with Hakkaido the
Vladivostok.
only area on the fringe not under Soviet control. Addi-
Control of the railroad implies control of the area's
tion of these territories will also make more secure com-
economic life, since transportation facilities regulate the
munication by sea between the Soviet centers edging
direction of commerce. Before the war the railroads con-
Manchuria (Port Arthur, Dairen, and Vladivostok) and
trolled the bulk of Manchurian industry. The economy
those on Kamchatka and the northern Siberian mainland.
can produce a food surplus and basic industrial products
The Soviets have gained year-round access to the northern
which will help to develop Siberia. Control of rail trans-
Pacific for their trading and naval ships. They have
port facilities alone would be sufficient to insure that eco-
acquired islands in the Kuriles which lie astride the
nomic development would be directed along lines favorable
northern air route between the United States and Asia.
to Siberian needs and to limit participation by other
Finally, their acquisitions so flank Japan as to limit any
foreign Powers in Manchurian trade and industry.
freedom of action to which the Japanese might aspire, and
Should the Soviets also encourage Soviet-Manchurian
in addition limit the capabilities of an occupying force
river trade, the flow of the principal navigable rivers of
in Japan.
RASTRIOTED
45
743731°-47-
4
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